Veronique Ok is from Danbury, CT, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and Environmental Resource Economics. Veronique has worked extensively with the New American population in Manchester, NH both through the Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success and the International Institute of New England. Her focus is solving issues of food insecurity within urban settings, and community development within refugee populations. In 2019 she worked under the African Alliance of Rhode Island growing a farmers’ market in South Providence. The pop up farmer’s market raised awareness of local food system challenges within the “food deserts” of South Providence.
